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Dr Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja

Title
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Worlding Public Cultures
College
University of the Arts London
Tags
Researcher Research
Maribel  Hidalgo Urbaneja

Biography

Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja is the Post-doctoral Research Fellow for the research project Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation at UAL. She is leading an international team of researchers collecting data about museums and university courses worldwide for the project database and website.

Her research interests span digital storytelling and narratology in museums and art history and critical digital humanities approaches that seek to challenge and reimagine dominant and biased practices in Art History and Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector.

She obtained a PhD in Information Studies from the University of Glasgow in 2020 and holds a BA degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in Spain, and a MA degree in Publishing, Journalism and Arts Management at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Additionally, Maribel has held positions at The Getty in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. In these institutions her work was focused on developing digital publications and projects.